Regional caries data availability in Saudi Arabia: Impact of socioeconomic factors and research potential

• Main Authors: Asim Al-Ansari (Author), Maha El Tantawi (Author), Mohamed Mehaina (Author), Muhanad Alhareky (Author), Shazia Sadaf (Author), Jehan AlHumaid (Author), Adel AlAgl (Author), Fahad Al-Harbi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background and aims: Monitoring oral diseases is needed to allocate resources, plan health services and train dental workforce. Caries is one of the oral diseases most commonly included in oral health surveillance systems. The present study assessed (1) caries data availability in the administrative...